Saving Peru's sea turtles and marine birds: conservationists and fishermen partner to tackle bycatch
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Oct 7, 2014, 10:37 am42 pts
Mongabay
Marine conservationists often view fisheries as an enemy of sorts, vacuuming up fish with little thought to the long-term consequences and using equipment that also ends up killing other species, i.e. bycatch like sea turtles and marine birds. However, Joanna Alfaro Shigueto, the President of the Peruvian…
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